Can anyone explain how Trade Income is calculated?

[Didz]

Can anyone explain how trade income is calculated?

Despite reading numerous testimonials on this forum about the high income to be gained from trade I find the returns I am getting to be minimal and without knowing how it is calculated its hard to understand why.

Here are the stats, I've included Acumen levels but I don't know if they are relevant to trade:

Ruler: Umar the Irritable Acu=2 (poor start)

Kiev (Acu=2) Trading Post, 2 Goods, TI=39
Khazar (Acu=8) Merchant, 5 Goods, TI=139
Constantinople (Acu=3) Master Merchant, 3 Goods, TI=124
Antioch (Acu=7) Merchant Guild, 3 Goods, TI=378
Tripoli (Acu=9) Merchant Guild, 4 Goods, TI=495
Egypt (Acu=4) Master Merchant, 2 Goods, TI=195
Morrocco (Acu=5) Master Merchant, 1 Good, TI=81
Cordoba (Acu=6) Master Merchant, 2 Goods, TI=174
Valencia (Acu=5) Master Merchant, 1 Good, TI=99
Portugal (Acu=6) Master Merchant, 2 Goods, TI=152
Leon (Acu=7) Merchant, 1 Good, TI=69
Castile (Acu=5) Merchant Guild, 1 Good, TI=108

Now I realise I need other ports to trade with but I have control of the Med and unrestricted access to the following foreign ports. Can you trade with enemy ports?

Enemy Ports
Cyprus
Crete
Sicily
Malta
Toulouse
Aquitane

Neutral Ports
Papal States
Rome

So can anyone explain how MTW calculates Trade Income?

Thanks

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Didz
Fortis balore et armis

[maroule]

each product generates a specific income (corn and cotton low, around 20, and spices high, around 40 I think) that gets multiplied by the number of ports you trade with, every year. You have the exact discount in each province in the earning icon (and click on the provinces).

So provinces as antioch that have 4 products earn more. Acumen deals with agricultural income only.

[cart6566]

As far as I know, you cannot trade with enemy ports. Therein lies your problem. You will be amazed if you can add 6 or 7 neutral/allied ports to receive your goods.

[cart6566]

Forgot this: go to the economy display (the button with stacks of coin) and click on the exporting province in which you are interested. It should show the amounts of trade income to the various ports it is reaching (it names the ports and shows the florin amount).

[A.Saturnus]

Just to give you an impression what you`re missing:
if you have 8 provinces with an average trade of 50 per port and trade routes to 30 ports you get 12000 florins per turn!!

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In the name of electricity: CHARGE!!!

[cart6566]

Here is another item that I'm not sure everyone knows about: You won't get trade income from a sea route to a province that has the same trade good as the originating province. For example, no trade route from Saxony to Flanders because Flanders already has corn.